The Sun. — London, England, 1818-02-17 00:00:00

THE CATHOLIC CLAIMS. FOR THE sUN. ADDRESS AND APPEAL OF THE ROSIAN CATHO LICS OF IRELAND TO THEIR PROTESTANT BRE THREN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRrIt.IN AND IRELAND. :LETTER, X. MR.tinTOß,=;t may appear superfluous to 'add any further illustration of the design so ob- vious in this public Appeal of the Irish Papists, by the, adoption of a pop►tlar and general mode of expression, to cajale the PrOtestants of the Unit- 'eti Kingdom into a notion that - their principles are tint only perfectly'innocuous, but that they in truth differ little, and in no instance -essentially frOm out own ! But, in case any of your headers should be so far influenced by time liberal habits 'of the age, as to.require the confession of their op ponents, before they can be persuaded to give credit to any charge brought against them, I will present tá you and to them, one extract from their official appeal, which will speak volumes to the most liberally incredulous man in the United Kingdatn. Having recapitulated in terms rather new to the purpose of 4 Papal. Confession of Faith, they "'Phis snminary of religious doctrine is re- say, cognised by us, in common with every Christian Community—but ottr coincidence with our Protest ant Brethren (the Churcl► of England), is not con- fined to a mere recognition of general principles. Oar Ecclesiastical Constitution is Episcopal, and observes the same orders of Hierarchy as is oh. served in the Protestant Church. We approxi mate VERY CLOSELY in the observance of rites, and our approximation is still more observable in our Liturgy or Form of Prayers, the difference in very many instances existing solely in the language i►t tehich the same sentiments are expressed. In our 'political and social relations the similarity is Con 'FLETE. We hold the FAME: ALLEGIANCE to our most gracious Sovereign we venerate the sAmE CONSTITUTION ; we Kre governed by the some Par liament; we contribute squally to the supply of the FECUNIARY, Naval, and Military Resources of !be State, and in the several transactions of life, we are regulated by the same principles, and in- Aueneed by the same motives, as those which our fellow-subjects approve and adopt." They then proceed regularly to their conclusiou, that 'g thus it is manifested that EVER - relitg,ions ail(' political principle, essential to the good order, and to the subsistence of our State, is EQUALLY recognised by Protestants and Catholics, and it would become a difficult question to ascertain How two classes of WIT Population, THU 3 UNITED it) 1 3 R/NCIPLE and PRACTIca, could be subjected toNdifferent measures of Government ?" This difficult question is, however, solved, by -charging the crime of separating the congenial systems of Popery and Protestantism upon interested individuals, who, in a fit of unaccountable caprice 'or anger, are said to have established a wanton scheme of persecution, by which " the rights of one Class of subjects is rendered tributary to the prejudices of another !" Now, Sir, I repeat, I might . safely leave this pre- cious and rare specimen of falie statetnents, and forced inductions, to operate upon the minds of men of the most ordinary capacity, but it is so much easier to depend °pun others, when a question is to be analyzed, that nine men in ten, in a state of high civilization, are content to take current opi• Mioll3 Hs they flow, without giving themselves the trouble to ascertain upon what foundation they are built, or, indeed, whether they be true or false. If the generality of men would think for themselves, divesting their minds of the broad and sweeping assertions of Journalists and Re viewers, whose principles are necessarily incited. only to partial views in every public question; if they would dispassionately look at the great lead- ing objects of public interest, and weigh every measure professedly proposed for its promotion, both as to its immediate constmences and to its remote or contingent effects, we should have less to deplore from 'the stages of faction, and be a -more prosperous and• inure happy race of people titan we can pretend to be in the present day.-- We should Dave practical wisdom in the place of flimsy speculation, and instead of trying er.Peri wents upon the machinery of the noblest Consti . tution ever framed by the wit or valour of man, , ive should be continually hedging it round with safeguards to protect it from the innovating hand of time, and the aggressive violence of TRA /TORS, who &grade the name and titles of Patriotism, or of JESiYITS, who smile in our face whilst they arc mining the foundations, and lighting the torch at °oz./ll:ars, which is to involrethe Whole in one mil- versa! conflagration; and SUCCEED THEY WILL, if the good sense of the Nation be not reused and unied against the Hydra 1-lead of Sedition and Rebellion, fomented and vitalized by the pompous inanity of /i heal Thin'ker ail the Maebinatlons of ;'‘cictions . Doers, by the•frivolity of ourdecting Disciples. and lie . base3iypocrisy of desperate Leaders, the childish Advocates of innovation, and the half witted, bur' totally unpritiCipled, deciainters for 'REFORM when no evil exists It is to the good sense "of Britons that I now aapeal in layout of our common Country—in that lies our only re- .. source. The mass of the population is led astray in its judgment by the grossest misrepresentations and the most 'unfounded calumnies, and it is only necossAry for good men to combine, am] to In up the standard of Troth, in older to bring hack the deluded multitude to their sensee.:—Now, Sir, such are the motives , by which I am' actuated in analyzing the paragraph to which I have reqoested you; attention, and that of your Readers, in this most andacinui Appeal and Address to the Pro testant Population of these Kingdoms. In the first place, the appellants make a pro fession of Faith which is not true, inasmuch as it is not consonant, either in letter or spirit, with any authorised profession of •Faith used or permitted in their Clooeb. Secondly, they assert the direct coincidence of the Coitstirution of the Roman Catholic with our tv'sr, 'from the fact of iis " being Episcopal, and obi;eiving the same orders of Hierarchy." • Now, mark, Si`r, the dishonest and disingentioirs suhtilty which they employ iu this statement. We have, unquestionably, Archbishops, Bishops, &c. and so have they ; but have we a Porn ?—He is a Bishop , it may be said ; but is lie a Bishop according to our hierarchy—do we impute infallibility to mor tal man ?—And is not the introduction of such a character, independently of its blasphemy in giv ing the attributes of the Ahnighty to an intriguing Monk, sufficient to destroy efery characteristic or common similitude between the tiro Churches, since it alters the whole principle of Church Government ? Is it not, in fact, the ground and origin of our separation—is it not the Nucleus roomd which the whole evil and cor ruption are accumulated against which our fathers and ourselves have constantly protested? Are these ITICii [lieu to be trusted or even treated with, who, in a public document like that before us, demand our conctssion as a matter of course to asserted fac'.s which bear the stamp of falsehood upon their front ? Who assume an absolute coincidence upon the very point at issue between themselves and their opponents, and then, with the coolness of habitual•efi c i outcry, affect surprise that this fact has not been previously established " since it snook! become a difficult question to ascertain. now two classes of our Population, TIIUS UNITED lu PRINCIPLE AND PRACTICE, could he subjected to different measures of Government ! !"-. The sanie observations will apply 'to the next clause of our extract-where they maintain', with the B ,inie plausible exterior of being actually in earnest, " that they approximate VERY ctosELY in the observance of rites." Have 11'e any of the mommeey of the aas—t he elevation of the host, the adoration of the consecrated water :Have we Elm, in short, pinged our rites acid CCECIIIOII CS vaio pomp and external glitter of the Roman Maanfactory ; anal is not this, like die former inzputa.ian of similarity in the form of Church Government, the great point of dissen sion between the Romatiists and Protestants ? glut say they, " our approximation is still snore observable •in our'LiNrgy ot . Form of Prayers, the difiert•ute in very twiny instances existing solely in. the 'language in which the same sentiments are expressed. D(, %re itivocate Saints—do we pray to the. Virgin—do we retain any single form or prayer in common, which is not immediately drawn from» the primitive sources of Christianity, before the Despoiler of Christianity had usurped the seat ot- St. Peter, and secularized the Church Hof Christ for the attainment. of temporal Power? _Here, as in the former instances, the very grounds of separation ate consuned into points of coinci dence; and like the man who declared himself a second Alexander, because his neck was awry, they infer identity—becatrse a single feature may bear a common resemblance. But I really want words to express my contempt at the manner in which the great question between the two Churches, of opening the Scriptures to the people in their native language, is evaded, and the fact admitted incidentally as a proof of mutual con currence. They stare that " their approximation is still more observable in their Liturgy and Form of Prayers, the difference in very many instances ex ist ing solely in the lan g uage in which the same sentiments are expressed." • The language is every thing in this view of the question—for it is nei ther more nor less than, this, whether the people shall consult- the Scriptures in 'nook' of the Doctrines preached to them, or whether they shall implicitly trust to their Priests and the Dogmas of their Pontiff—whether they shall dwell in the light of the Gospel, or be immersed in the darkness of ignorance and- superstition ? lt'is in short a main branch of the great separat ing line between 'he two Churches, and yet this, like all the rest, is crest up with jesuitical craft, to impose upon the unwary multitude, the great and little vulgar, a notion that no such line of demarcation exists ? lint to proceed—having thus professed to establish link by link the close connexion—nay the - identity of the two most discordant forms of Church polity and worship, with which we are arvainted—they on to prove, by - the some iageaious proceSs of reason ing, that its their . political and social relations the similarity is CO M PL ETE.--“ We hold (say they) the same allegiance to our 'most gracious Sove reign !"—Allegiatice is allegiance-=—but something stronger was necessary to impress upon our sms picious minds. the notion of the allegiance en tertained by the Roman Catholic appellants — they hold the same allegiance to our most gra cious Sovereign - as we Protestants do f-7—lt really is breaking a by ou the wheel—or rather fighting a shadow—to hying torwardproof against this As sumption of a fact which disproves they bear the same allegiance with the Protestant 9, why are the Roman - Catholics Petitioners at Claimants for admission to- the Coast itutioni If they Will afford the required Test of the sane al legiance they are ipso facto in possession, by right, of all , the privileges for which they now petition. What Is it that excludes them foam power ply - the refusal to give-proof of the allegiance which their Protestant brethren Auld toteards their Sore sop's. But what is, the Emil lustead of bearing • iTte enure Aeelan(e ,sith their Protestant brethren, - theyhire for the first time halted iii their to vi,ilds HIM to ‘111o;io ALONE they consider allegiance chiv- , -*OF:CAU3E t,e afforded his sanction to a mere empty form of d,ferenee to him Minn' they can their mo s t gracious Sovereign, in the'dectioo of their Bishops. The Pope would have had them conform to the YuTo proposed by their own advo cates, and what were the term: to which they re jected it ? "that they considereA the grantiog to an arta-Catholic Government any power, direct or indi rect, with regard to the appointment and nomi nation .of the Catholic Bishops in Ireland, at all times inexpedient and that eircumStanced as they are, they consoler the granting such power not only ittexpedielit, but highly detri mental to the best and dearest interests of raj- and pregnant with incalculable mischief to THE CAUSE OF CATHOLICITY in Leland But it proof were wanting to illn'trate the nature of Roman Catholic ALLEGIANCE, anti to shew that it is not the same with that Of the Pro testants, we might refer to the circumstante, not sufficiently known, of a most atrocious publication, called a " Statement of the Penal Laws which aggrieve the Roman Catholics of Ireland," having been published hi Ireland, and by a Jury declared to be - a sPoretous, and 712(likiOUS libel upon the King's . Government , in Ireland.' This was in 1813. lo 1814, " the Most Reverend Dr. Murray," Coadjutor of the Archbishop of Dublin (Dr. Troy), basing been sent'on a soletnu mission to his Holiness the Pope (whialt mission, by the bye, partakes of the nature of treason by our laws), writes from Rome that it is extremely fortunate that Cardinal Albea (President of the College. of Propaganda) " understands English very well, and has already perused most of those papers which throw any light upon the subject: and PARTICULARLY THE STATEMENT' OF THE PENAL LAWS, WHICH HE HAS NEARLY COM MITTED To MEMORY. He expressed himself ia unqualified terms of abhorrence of THE OATH, and of some clauses in the late Bill:" This is extracted from the official Roman Catholic Jour nal, the Dublin L:ening Post, of the 18th. of August, 1814 Here, Sir, is a precious tonfirma tiou, it not " strong as holy writ," at least as authoritative, their own skewing ,as holy writ it self, of the Roman Catholic allegiance being THE SAME with the Protestants—a recorded false, se ditious, and malicious libel upon the King's Govern ment, is mule qficiat document to lay -at the feet of the Roman Pontiff (for lie and ALI. the Cardinals welcomed the mission with the. highest .honours), and is not only received with approba. tion (after its solemn condtmuation'at home) but committeirto" memory by a .Cardinal, Who. at the same moment pronounces judgment en cathedra against the proceedings of a British Parliament. Really, Sir, it is difficult which most to admire— the atrocious act of sedition arid hostility, if not treason, against the Government of this country, or the audacity of pien who probably di3patchvd this very mission, . and certainly tire iminediately connected with those who did, and now presume, upon time blindfold fatuity of their fellow'country• to assert in the face o.f day. that they bold the rime allegiance for their Most gracious Sovereign with themselves ! Sir, I do tnaiotain that if not a line had..been written, not a voice raised against the grant of power now solicited by the , Flonian Catholic claimants, THIS DOCUMENT ALONE, connected with ; the previous history and writings of the Popish priesthood and the Jesuit casuists, would be sufficient to unite every honest, sober-minded supporter of the British Constitut hot ill open and unhesitating opposition to the re-admission of men to the privileges of legislation and diplomatic agency,. who thus boldly declare that the princi ples which instigated their ancestors to deeds of tyranny and oppression against their fellow coun• trymen are unchanged and unchangeable, and who thus betray in a manifesto, officially publish ed to the country, the same spirit of intrigue, the same subtlety of illusion, the same perversion of truth, and the same juggle of mental reservation, which have ever marked their successful march to power, and proved the precursor of the terrible sod sanguinary Epochas of THEIR ASCENDANCY. 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LONDON, TUESD,4K FERRI73RY 17, ,141;3. We received ti3is morning the Paris Papers of Saturday last. They do not. contaio a sio t zlt! syflable . for , her respecGog the base attempt upon Ole life of the Doke of WELSJNGTO:tip ncar do they give the least -intimation of the discovery of the assassin. The,following are extracts " FIE. 14 —Tire Doke of Vicllingion the day before yecerday continued • to receive visits from the Members of the Corps Diplo:Ra tiqne; a'rul QUe most distingui3heti person's capitol:lE " Anthenlic iuformation t o loTtget le' ives doubt I bat there has been A great fall io the pt . ° of Grain M Toulon; Bordeaux, Meaux; Oilcans/ and in other Agricultoral " We learn filnu Leipsit, that Madame tk Krudener earnestly sacittd permission or tir'' Court of Saxony to prolong ber stay either a t Leipsicor. seine other SaMoll town, bats her r e q ues %eas not acceded to. The e've Of her departure site had a numerous assenthlV at her house with out informing the Police. She reconanence(l her prophecies and her complaints respecting the inis ; fortunes of the times, irreligion, and the los s salvation, which the present generation 1 W ) la' curred. On her departure, she was by linP eri° ; order accompanied by M. de Rachel, the P resj ; (lent of Police, and M. tl'Einsiedel, the Car tbillo l . the circle, to the frontier, where a Prussian Othce of Police, with •an escort of three Gendarmes' took charge of her by special orders from the of Prussia, 'On the extreme frontier or 1111 Kingdom of Saxony, she alighted from her °s riage to preach a sermon, in which she P ro ( - 1 nounced a warm eulogy on the pietY '4114 spirit of justice that aemared the N i " g or Saxony. Several of the villagers and r an d assemhled, to whom she distributed ma. o o' °l'd exhorted them to turn from their error s yh converted. MaThnne de It rudener passed Torgan, where she made only a short 5"Y', ,9 proceed to Frankfort on the Oder, where sl' e " ti l t at the date of the last accounts ; she Pr°cee from thence, by way of Konigsberg, to " The trial of Bruneati, calling himself Lo'l.l XVI was continued on the 12th , and agsl adjourned till the next day. " There was no public sitting of the Ch an ' be : of Deputies yesterday. Tile Committee on tb Budget again assembled. Mademoiselle Garnerin accended in 13 /3 ' l ; loon on Snnday last, at Bordeaux, and ma de successful descent in a Parachute. " FIVE PER CENTS.- " Priday . Eft; f. I.oc. " Nt.TEBEtiG, FEB. s.—Letters from Ger fort state, tbat the celebrated petition of the i man Nation for a general Representation b6s been pre,_ , entjd to the Diet. " PETEItS!AIItUti, J. 17.—The Errlpeo r arrive liere 2gli instant. The f o reign Milli° sters will also return front Moscow. FRANKroaT, FEB. 9. The CoOo t (te 601(11, the l i rossian Minister,. has made Declaration the Crermanic Diet 'n'fihehigbe-st interest,respectirl4 the 13111 Article of The Treaty agreed Ilion by Congress of Vienna, H e a nn o ,wees in t his (le ; claration, that the King of Prussia liaspc°ll)igl e to give to his people a Constitution, and 'h itt le ) ,, ape ( is firmly resolved - to fulfil his promise. 0 , tails, however, the obstacles which have hithe te r prevented his Majesty from • carryiug Ilis de ' to mination into effect; and which still 0 1 )63te 5 0 cause a delay for some'titne longer. The Pr 11951;, Minister adds, that his Majesty proposes esi blish for the present Provincial States , " d in about a year he will make a declaration `ts ( lifi ( Lett Erri lepa a gai fleti ta i specting the then. state of affairs. We present this day another Message frc iril American PresicZent to both. [louses of t 95, It betrays, under the same plausible coloarirt" that o,n the Meeting of the LeTrit , lative l . 3odie t ie same - ambition and thirst for the extension' o C r Territories of the United States. As f'rti."c: howeve7, is generally marl;ed by some t it s:steney, the Message says, ativertie , To t" stiles " iniAries" attrndirg the procee(" lls c • Amelia Liam], while in possession of th e pendents, that " Sp i ttin would be responsibie; ii ► it was not manifest, that, although countftittci-0 the latter instance fb-rongh her Territorh 'b e 's er f utterly unable to prevent them," yet in same paragraph , there is the foirowing pass 4 , e ids "'j'e, a cuantry over which she (Sitain)z fails to taSt o l her a othority, and which penni!'s Le convcrtdd t (7 . / annoyance of her nei 4 filiours,, her ja tisdictioa for th e tteces,arily ecasses- to c);:t. , ,t. 'the territory at Fi.t4io Wi/ j c ' eff re :t m pected, so far as it ay be door cottslste with the ebt:eotial interests and safety of theUniteil-4t3t:1;10 Now, how can Spain be said to per 17111 ‘ u) r e site " utterly utuil}le to prevent ?" Kitt : t i. meant than. merts the ear," in Otis ,speci°lls 01 Ins idious imTsal.4e. Does not the Goveroffie°l tie Unitetl States erect itself into a J u dge' al . most pass sentence atzainst Spain by t:on But ;be deep and ambitious clesigt” Atneric,rn Governmt nt are to be found in til e c°' iro ttl 51' a clusl'on of the above ent! act "the territury will be respected, so fat as it may be d one cousiste %lid) the et.centiol :'.niertst3 and safety of the States ;"and who is to judge and tieterto ii /e 1 is co point trot the American Government, be Judge and Jury on the occasion ? exactly of a piece wilh he doctrine fail d wN" " .. 60 , the opening Speech of the riittaweNT , `lble the 1, letisi aid es In tel 114 Rtlt tire